The Wash: At Crispus Attucks Park, return of outdoor events creates sense of normalcy during…
Bloomingdales’ Crispus Attucks Park hosts its annual film festival this month after being canceled last year due to COVID. The event has brought the community together for years.
The Wash: Residents await District decision addressing collisions along Connecticut Avenue
After four neighborhood commissions in D.C. passed resolutions in April that favored ending reversible lane system and adding bike lanes, DDOT has not publicly finalized a decision.
Washington Business Journal: Pink Taco restaurant chain is opening a D.C. location
California restaurant chain Pink Taco is opening a new location in D.C.'s Navy Yard neighborhood in 2022.
Washingtonian: Missing Black People Don’t Receive Widespread Media Coverage. Two DC Women Are Trying…
Their nonprofit, Black and Missing Foundation, submits missing persons reports to media outlets and shares them online.
City Paper: Brookland Residents Push For Traffic Safety After 5-Year-Old’s Death
A small white "ghost bike" with training wheels marks the place where Allie Heart was killed.
Washington Business Journal: Hill East redevelopment lands $70M in financing, breaks ground
A 100-unit permanent supportive housing development atop the Stadium-Armory Metro station is moving ahead.
Washington Business Journal: The new head of the D.C. Housing Authority is planning big changes.…
Brenda Donald is, by her own admission, still pretty new to the world of real estate. Yet she finds herself at the helm of D.C.’s largest landlord, becoming the latest executive charged with engineering a turnaround for the D.C. Housing…
DCist: Here’s What You Need To Know About Vaccine Booster Distribution In The Washington Region
Booster shots of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine are now available across the region for certain groups, and will likely be doled out in a process that’s free from the supply hiccups the region saw during the initial vaccine phases.
Washington Post: Fueled by the pandemic, the child-care crisis is keeping moms out of work
Denise Tyree, a single mother in Washington, D.C., looks for work online most evenings. Scrolling through listings on her laptop, she reads job descriptions, submits applications and sends off resumes for administrative and front desk…
DCist: D.C. Sets First-Ever Hearing On Bill To Legalize Recreational Marijuana Sales
More than a dozen states across the U.S. have already legalized marijuana sales, and later this fall lawmakers in D.C. will start debating whether to join that group.
Press Release: The Consider Teachers Act Passes House of Representatives, Heads to President’s Desk
September 28, 2021
Contact: Sharon Eliza Nichols
WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Consider Teachers Act, a bipartisan bill introduced in the Senate by Senator Mike Braun, Senator Kyrsten Sinema, and in the House by Congresswoman Eleanor…
District Links: Casa Ruby nears fundraising goal after sudden loss of DHS grant; DC inches toward…
Days after announcing the loss of a key DC grant, the LGBTQ nonprofit Casa Ruby has met its initial $50,000 fundraising goal on GoFundMe to help keep some shelter beds open.
UrbanTurf: The 2,300 Units Planned Around Dave Thomas Circle
With the recent closure of the Wendy's at the center of DC's "Dave Thomas Circle" and plans for an upcoming park and accompanying street reconfiguration, the intersection of New York and Florida Avenues NE (map) will look markedly…
WTOP: Norton, Beyer ask for body and dashboard cameras for federal officers
After bipartisan police reform talks collapsed in Congress last week, Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton, D-D.C., and Rep. Don Beyer, D-Va., sent letters Monday to President Joe Biden, Capitol Police Board Chair Karen Gibson and Supreme Court…
WTOP: Casa Ruby LGBTQ+ shelter struggles to stay open after losing DC grant
The founder of a 50-bed Northwest D.C. shelter helping young, homeless LGBTQ+ community members worries it may be forced to close after the abrupt loss of an $850,000 government grant.
Axios: D.C. LGBTQ+ shelter faces shutdown
Casa Ruby, a non-profit that provides housing, health care, and social services to LGBTQ+ people in D.C., launched a GoFundMe after the city declined to renew funding for one of its youth shelter programs.
Washington Post: More than 100 Georgetown students, employees sickened with gastrointestinal illness
Students, faculty and staff have reported nausea, vomiting, diarrhea and stomach cramps.
Petula Dvorak in The Post: Think you don’t need to keep wearing that mask? These lions and tigers…
The zookeepers who usually feed bloodsicles and carcasses to the big cats at the National Zoo are now offering baby food and broth, keeping vigils over the sick animals and checking their coughs.
DCist: Congressmembers Norton, Beyer Asking Officials To Mandate Body-Worn Cameras For Federal…
Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) and Congressman Don Beyer (D-VA) are requesting federal police agencies like the Capitol Police, Supreme Court Police, and others wear body cameras.
WTOP: Florida lawmaker insults DC’s food scene — then gets served on Twitter
Long story short: Someone you’ve never heard of shared a hot take on Twitter, it went viral, and it upset some people.